Tippah County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Tippah County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tippah County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Tippah County holds about 0.7% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tippah County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,198 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Tippah County	21.3 min	42.5 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,496	484
Mississippi	21.5 min	43.0 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,558	914
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

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On average, it takes 21.3 minutes to get to work in Tippah County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 1.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tippah County

• Car: 95.7%
• Worked at Home: 1.2% unusually low
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 1.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.6% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Tippah County: 11.2 times more than the Mississippi average (0.6% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Tippah County, versus 0.3% in Mississippi.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Tippah County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Working from home is unusually rare in Tippah County: 4.8 times less than the Mississippi average (1.2% vs 5.9%).

Biking is essentially absent in Tippah County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Commute Mode Trends in Tippah County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tippah County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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• Walked
• Other
• Worked at Home
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• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Other	Worked at Home	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.9%	0.5%	1.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.8%	2.3%	1.3%	1.5%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.2%	1.1%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.0%	1.5%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.3%	1.3%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.7%	1.4%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.5%	0.7%	0.9%	2.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.6%	1.0%	1.0%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.9%	1.2%	0.4%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	1.1%	0.7%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.0%	1.3%	0.3%	5.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.4%	1.0%	0.2%	4.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.1%	0.6%	2.3%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.9%	0.6%	2.0%	3.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.5%	1.0%	1.4%	2.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.7%	1.2%	1.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 96.2% and lowest in 2019 at 93.0%. Overall it rose from 94.9% in 2009 to 95.7% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Tippah County: its share of workers rose from 0.5% in 2009 to 1.2% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 5.4% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Tippah County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tippah County?

The bars show when commuters in Tippah County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Mississippi for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Tippah County9.6% Mississippi6.6%	9.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Tippah County6.6% Mississippi4.5%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Tippah County10.6% Mississippi5.3%	10.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Tippah County12.2% Mississippi11.1%	12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Tippah County11.2% Mississippi12.4%	11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Tippah County15.4% Mississippi17.1%	15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Tippah County10.1% Mississippi12.6%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Tippah County6.2% Mississippi8.2%	6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Tippah County1.9% Mississippi3.0%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Tippah County2.7% Mississippi4.0%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Tippah County0.7% Mississippi2.1%	0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Tippah County0.3% Mississippi0.8%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Tippah County3.5% Mississippi5.8%	3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Tippah County8.9% Mississippi6.4%	8.9%

Tippah County Mississippi Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Tippah County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 26.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 43.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.1%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Tippah County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Tippah County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Tippah County next to Mississippi and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

• Tippah County
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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Tippah County	Mississippi	United States
2009	6:56 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:04 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:59 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:53 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:51 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:45 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:57 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:01 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:56 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:59 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tippah County were on the road by 6:59 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (6:56 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Tippah County now leave 39 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Tippah County has moved 14 minutes later.

How does Tippah County's commute time compare?

Metric	Tippah County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	1.2%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Tippah County is 21.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau